Whatever your reason for deciding to close down the company, so long as certain conditions are met the directors may choose to request that the Companies Registration Office (CRO) strike the company from the register.

This request is made by filling a Form H15 with the CRO within 3 months of a members Special Resolution to wind up the company.

The Form H15 must include:

• A Letter of No Objection from the Revenue Commissioners dated not more than 3 months before the CRO receive the H15.
• The page of a newspaper advertisement published in an Irish newspaper not more than 30 days before the request for strike off.
• The CRO will not register the application for strike off if the company has any outstanding filings.

• If everything is in order with the application for strike off the CRO will change the company's status from "Normal" to "Strike Off Listed".
• The CRO will then publish a notice in the CRO Gazette of its intention to strike the company off the register.
• The company will then be dissolved within 90 days of this notice unless an objection is received.

Any person may deliver to the Registrar within 90 days of the date of publication of the strike off notice an objection to the striking off of the company in the Form H16. The objection must be confined to the ground that one or more of the strike off requirements above have not been satisfied.